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Dodger vs Dodder - What's the difference?

dodger | dodder |

As a noun dodger

is a member of the us professional baseball team.

As a proper noun dodder is

a river in ireland, a tributary of the liffey.

dodger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who dodges.
  • (nautical) A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat.

    • Synonyms

    * (companionway cover) sprayhood

    Derived terms

    * artful dodger * coffin dodger * draft dodger * salad dodger * tax dodger

    dodder

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.
  • * 2013, , (The Childhood of Jesus) , Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, pp. 59-60.
    • Their neighbours have been, on one side, an old man who dodders around in his dressing gown talking to himself, and on the other a stand-offish couple who pretend not to understand the Spanish he speaks.
    Derived terms
    * dodderer * doddering (adj) * doddery

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (wikipedia dodder) (en noun)
  • Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta''. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family '' , recent genetic research by the (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group) has shown that it is correctly placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
    • Synonyms
    * angel hair,
    Hyponyms
    * dodder, * * * * * *